Research Policy

Article	Citations
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	293
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	290
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	235
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis	194
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	177
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	159
Editorial Board	158
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	153
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	142
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	140
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	138
War and Transition	125
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists	118
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	113
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	104
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	96
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	93
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	86
Editorial Board	85
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	84
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	83
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	82
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	82
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements	81
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	79

Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	79
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	78
The jurisdiction of the subjective expected utility (SEU) approach to risk-taking in science – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in science’	78
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	76
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	76
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	74
Home vs office: Does workspace design influence where academics conduct their research?	73
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	72
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	72
Storm crowds: Evidence from Zooniverse on crowd contribution design	72
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	72
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	71
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions	66
OK computer: Worker perceptions of algorithmic recruitment	65
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	64
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	61
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	59
Economic complexity and the green economy	58
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms	57
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	56
Editorial Board	55
Winning the second race of technology standardization: Strategic maneuvers in SEP follow-on innovations	55
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	54
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors	53
How do policy instruments generate new ones? Analysing policy instruments feedback and interaction in educational research in England, 1986-2014	53
Innovation effects of academic executives: Evidence from China	53
Are ideas being fished out?	51
Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a professor in Germany. An event history analysis of academic psychologists from 1980 to 2019	50
Nest without birds: Inventor mobility and the left-behind patents	50
Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations	50
The complex nature of regional knowledge production: Evidence on European regions	50
Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms	49
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem	48
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	48
How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs	47
How does the social economy contribute to social and environmental innovation? Evidence of direct and indirect effects from a European survey	47
Innovation, growth and the transition to net-zero emissions	47
Access to science and innovation in the developing world	46
Free-riding in academic co-authorship: The marginalization of research students	46
What makes the right OSS contributor tick? Treatments to motivate high-skilled developers	46
The process of framing innovation activities: How strategic leaders erode their ideas for radical innovations	46
“Perspective: Promoting and fostering multidisciplinary research in universities”	46
The governance of open science: A comparative analysis of two open science consortia	46
Against misleading technocratic precision in research evaluation and wider policy – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in science’	46
Hybrid governance of platform entrepreneurs	45
Towards regional scientific integration in Africa? Evidence from co-publications	45
A simple measure of economic complexity	44
Editorial Board	44
Digitalization and resilience	44
The governance of artificial intelligence: Harnessing opportunities and mitigating challenges	44

Brokerage evolution in innovation contexts: Formal structure, network neighborhoods and knowledge	44
Project-oriented agency and regeneration in socio-technical transition: Insights from the case of numerical weather prediction (1978–2015)	43
Reaching beyond low-hanging fruit: Basic research and innovativeness	42
Tracing productivity growth channels in the UK	42
Institutionalizing social entrepreneurship in the Global South: How intermediaries work around the indigenous solidarity economy in Colombia	42
Simmelian brokerage, tertius iungens orientation, and idea elaboration	42
A composite indicator analysis for optimizing entrepreneurial ecosystems	41
Research funding and collaboration	41
Adjusting to the digital: Societal outcomes and consequences	41
Harnessing the science base: Results from a national programme using publicly-funded research centres to reshape firms’ R&D	40
Next-generation consumer innovation search: Identifying early-stage need-solution pairs on the web	40
Unexpectedness in medical research	39
Editorial Board	39
How media portrayal of CEO overconfidence impacts radical innovation	39
Coevolution of job automation risk and workplace governance	39
Industrial policy, congruence, and innovation: Evidence from “Chinese NASDAQ”	39
Miss or match? The impact of PhD training on job market satisfaction	39
Profiting from innovation when digital business ecosystems emerge: A control point perspective	38
Patent Toxicity	38
Technology discontinuation as a continuous process: diesel, sustainability, and the politics of delay	38
The interdependent influence of lobbying and intellectual capital on new drug development	38
Family CEO and radical innovation: A stewardship perspective	37
Assessing the effects of a deliberate policy mix: The case of technology and innovation advisory services and innovation vouchers	37
Big data and dynamic capabilities in the digital revolution: The hidden role of source variety	37
On the emergence of interdisciplinary scientific fields: (how) does it relate to science convergence?	37
The dynamics of abandoned innovation activities: Learning from failure or learning to prevent failure?	37
Innovation failure, training for innovative activities and public support for innovation: Multi-annual evidence from emerging European innovation systems	36
Resource orchestration, socioemotional wealth, and radical innovation in family firms: Do multifamily ownership and generational involvement matter?	36
What is the price of a skill? The value of complementarity	36
The heterogeneous effects of environmental taxation on green technologies	36
How do global manufacturing shifts affect long-term clean energy innovation? A study of wind energy suppliers	35
Regional innovation networks & high-growth entrepreneurship	35
Decline processes in technological innovation systems: Lessons from energy technologies	35
Does the complexity and embeddedness of knowledge recombination contribute to economic development? —— Observations from prefecture cities in China	35
Does language prevent policy take-up? Evidence from the Italian Start-up Act	35
Policy feedbacks and socio-technical feedbacks in accelerated low-carbon transitions: An integrated conceptual framework illustrated with case studies of lighting and smart meters	35
Short technology cycle time and firm innovation: Evidence from China	35
From virtuous to vicious cycles – towards a life cycle model of technology deployment policies	34
Green technological diversification: The role of international linkages in leaders, followers and catching-up countries	34
R&D spillovers through RJV cooperation	34
A question worth a million: The expert, the crowd, or myself? An investigation of problem solving	34
Knowledge spillover and entrepreneurship: Evidence from BITNET	34
Examination incentives, learning, and patent office outcomes: The use of examiner’s amendments at the USPTO	34
ERC science and invention: Does ERC break free from the EU Paradox?	34
The Startup Cartography Project: Measuring and mapping entrepreneurial ecosystems	33
The subjective expected utility approach and a framework for defining project risk in terms of novelty and feasibility – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in scie	33
Comments on “Ranking researchers: Evidence from Indonesia” by Fry et al. (2023)	33
Hidden software and veiled value creation: Illustrations from server software usage	33
Biopiracy: Crying wolf or a lever for equity and conservation?	33
Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from chemistry	33
Clean sweep: Electricity liberalization and the direction of technological change in the electricity sector	33
Sitting on the Fence: Integrating the two worlds of scientific discovery and invention within the firm	33
Editorial Board	33
The interplay between product innovation, publishing, patenting and developing standards	32
Who games metrics and rankings? Institutional niches and journal impact factor inflation	32
Assessing differences between university and federal laboratory postdoctoral scientists in technology transfer	32
How and when adversity breeds ingenuity in an emerging market: Environmental threats, co-innovation, and frugal innovation	32
A new dataset to study a century of innovation in Europe and in the US	31
How Artificial Intelligence Technology Affects Productivity and Employment: Firm-level Evidence from Taiwan	31
Editorial Board	31
Procrastination or incomplete data? An analysis of USPTO examiner search activity	31
Benefits beyond the local network: Does indirect international collaboration ties contribute to research performance for young scientists?	31
Human capital in corporate venture capital units and its relation to parent firms' innovative performance	31
Timing, modifications, and tenor of firms' mandatory R&D disclosures: The role of competition	31
Inventor mobility under uncertainty	31
Batman forever? The role of trademarks for reuse in the US comics industry	30
Specialisation precedes diversification: R&D productivity effects	30
Exploring the effect of overlapping institutional applications on panel decision-making	30
Human capital and trademarks: Evidence from higher education expansion in China	30
Accommodating coercion: Authors, editors, and citations	30
The NBER Orange Book Dataset: A user’s guide	30
Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields	30
Innovation and inter-city knowledge spillovers: Social, geographical, and technological connectedness and psychological openness	29
Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings	29
Editorial Board	29
From local markets to global legitimacy: A materialization perspective on technological innovation system's dynamics	29
The role of pre-innovation platform activity for diffusion success: Evidence from consumer innovations on a 3D printing platform	29
Regulatory standards and consequences for industry architecture: The case of UK Open Banking	29
Knowledge path dependence, external connection, and radical inventions: Evidence from Chinese Academy of Sciences	29
From startup nation to open innovation nation: The evolution of open innovation activities within the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem	29

For what they are, not for what they bring: The signaling value of gender for financial resource acquisition in academic spin-offs	29
Crowdsourcing research questions in science	29
Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda	29
Evaluating the principle of relatedness: Estimation, drivers and implications for policy	29
Another pathway to complementarity: How users and intermediaries identify and create new combinations in innovation ecosystems	29
Variety, complexity and economic development	28
The rich or the poor? Personal resources, do-it-yourself, and innovation in the household sector	28
Measuring the technological bias of robot adoption and its implications for the aggregate labor share	28
The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities	28
A processual approach to skill changes in digital automation: The case of the platform economy in the service sector	28
Introduction to the special section celebrating the centenary of Chris Freeman's birth	28
The vexing but persistent problem of authorship misconduct in research	28
Governance rigidity, industry evolution, and value capture in platform ecosystems	27
Education premium and the compound impact of universities on their regional economy	27
Designing grant-review panels for better funding decisions: Lessons from an empirically calibrated simulation model	27
Can the establishment of a personal data protection system promote corporate innovation?	27
Resolving the patents paradox in the era of COVID-19 and climate change: Towards a patents taxonomy	27
Long waves in the geography of innovation: The rise and decline of regional clusters of creativity over time	27
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and regional persistence of high growth firms: A ‘broken clock’ critique	27
Women advocates and men critics: How referees' gender influences candidates' likelihood of receiving a promotion	27
Editorial Board	26
Inter-regional highly skilled worker mobility and technological novelty	26
Paradoxical transparency? Capital market responses to exploration and exploitation disclosure	26
Technological improvement rate predictions for all technologies: Use of patent data and an extended domain description	26
Knowledge spillovers and intangible complementarities: Empirical case of European countries	26
The slipstream strategy: How high-status OEMs coopete with platforms to maintain their digital extensions' edge	26
Editorial Board	26
Motivating innovation: The impact of prestigious talent funding on junior scientists	25
Litigate or let it go? Multi-market contact and IP infringement-litigation dynamics	25
R&D subsidies in permissive and restrictive environment: Evidence from Korea	25
Editorial Board	25
Technological lock-in in action: Appraisal and policy commitment in Argentina's seed sector	25
Editorial Board	25
Global development agenda meets local opportunities: The rise of development-focused entrepreneurship support	25
Economic impacts of AI-augmented R&D	25
Do scientific capabilities in specific domains matter for technological diversification in European regions?	25
Last Word on the Discussion regarding the paper: “Uncertainty and risk-taking in science: Meaning, measurement and management in peer review of research proposals”	25